Living Library

Table of Contents

• README
• Releases
• Contact

README

Background

This API allows users to view, create, update and delete library donations.

In the context of this API, a donation is a monetary donation to the library. The donation results in the library adding a book plate to a book in its collection.

Each donation record includes information about:

• donor
• who should be notified of the donation
• recipient
• amount of donation
• date of donation
• subject areas (to help choose the book)
• book (which contains the book plate dedicated to the recipient)

Contributing

Check out our contributing guidelines for ways to offer feedback and contribute.

Licenses

Apache License 2.0.

All other content is released under CC-BY-4.0.

Local Environment Setup

• Go into living-library folder (i.e. root folder of app)
• Run npm install
• If it doesn't work the first time, delete the node_modules folder and rerun npm install
• Have mysql 5.4 - 5.7
• Add .env file to root folder of app (you can copy .env-example)
• Define the API_ROUTE and API_KEY variables in your .env file
• Create a mysql database named livinglibrary (or whatever value you give to the DB_NAME variable in your .env file)
• Define the variables from the # Database section of your .env file (see .env-example)
• Import livinglibrary.sql (for schema only, no content) or livinglibrary_with_example_content.sql (for schema & example content)
• Make sure the variables from the # Tables from new database schema section of your .env file (see .env-example) match your mysql database

To run app over HTTPS:

• Define the SSL_KEY and SSL_CERTIFICATE variables in your .env file
• Run node living-library.js
• Go to https://localhost:8000/API_ROUTE?api_key=API_KEY (i.e. HOST + API_ROUTE + "?api_key=" + API_KEY), where HOST, API_ROUTE, and API_KEY are defined in your .env file

To run app over HTTP:

• In your .env file, make sure the HOST, API_URL, and CORS_ALLOWED_ORIGIN variables have values that begin with http rather than https
• In config/express.js, change const HTTPS = require('https') to const HTTP = require('http'). Also, change

  SERVER = HTTPS.createServer({
      key: FS.readFileSync(CONFIG.sslKey),
      cert: FS.readFileSync(CONFIG.sslCertificate)
  }, APP);
  

  to SERVER = HTTP.createServer(APP);
• Run node living-library.js
• Go to http://localhost:8000/API_ROUTE?api_key=API_KEY (i.e. HOST + API_ROUTE + "?api_key=" + API_KEY), where HOST, API_ROUTE, and API_KEY are defined in your .env file

Frontend Example

Here is an example of code that integrates with this API.

In particular, see get.js and postPutDelete.js from above link.

Maintainers

@scottsalvaggio

Acknowledgements

@freyesdulib, @jrynhart, @kimpham54

Releases

• v1.0.0

Contact

Ways to get in touch:

• Contact the Digital Infrastructure & Technology Coordinator at University of Denver, Library Technology Services
• Create an issue in this repository